Less than 1% of lung neoplasms are represented by benign tumors. Among these, hamartomas are the most common with an incidence between 0.025% and 0.32%. In relation to the localization, hamartomas are divided into intraparenchymal and endobronchial.Clinical manifestation of an endobronchial hamartoma (EH) results from tracheobronchial obstruction or bleeding. Usually, EH localizes in large diam...

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 The aim of study to evaluate the bedside percutaneous dilatation tracheostomy, performed with Fiberoptic bronchoscopy guided Griggs technique using a mini-tracheostomy needle, by residents in intensive care unit retrospectively.
 Materials and Methods
 Percutaneous tracheostomys 20 patients needle. All tracheostomy procedures were resident who was currently undergoing reside...

best Philadelphia hospitals during the era of 1961 to 1965. It is possible for bias to have crept into the data if reporting of the cases by the hospital pathologists was incomplete, but I have no reason to suspect that this was so. I suspect that the rates are now lower as a result of better case selection stirnulated by the sad experiences of the past, as well as by the advent of mediastinosc...

Nitric oxide has been extensively studied as a noninvasive marker of airway inflammation. Assuming that bronchoscopy can produce not only systemic but also local inflammatory response, we hypothesized that bronchofiberoscopy can be responsible for an increase in nitric oxide synthesis with resulting increase in fractional concentration of exhaled nitric oxide (FE(NO)). Fifty five subjects (F/M-...

Hamartomas are the most common benign tumors of the lung. It is most common peripherally in the parenchyma as solitary nodule or endobronchial lesion. Endobronchial form may cause obstruction of airway, atelectasis and recurrent pneumonia. Endobronchial hamartomas may be treated by surgical intervention or bronchoscopic excision (with rigid or flexible procedures). We are presenting a case of e...

OBJECTIVE To compile fiberoptic bronchoscopy findings in patients diagnosed with lung cancer and to correlate those with histopathological findings. METHODS This was a retrospective study involving 212 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of lung cancer by cytological evaluation of BAL specimens or by histopathological evaluation of endobronchial or transbronchial biopsy specimens. The data we...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) can be challenging for anesthesiologists because central venous access can be difficult, and the airway can be blocked due to the fixed flexion deformity of the spine. In this case, we attempted central access via the right subclavian vein, but the catheter was repeatedly inserted into the azygos vein, which was confirmed by radiology. After several attempts, the cat...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical characteristics of fever after fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and to identify the independent risk factors of postbronchoscopy fever. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. STUDY SUBJECTS Immunocompetent adults undergoing FOB between July 2001 and April 2002. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Five hundred eighteen adults ...

BACKGROUND The diagnostic and staging approach for the mediastinal lymphadenopathies, with or whithout pulmonary lesions endoscopically visible, is based on transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) during fiberoptic bronchoscopy and on mediastinoscopy. One important factor impacting on TBNA sensitivity is the rapid on site cytological examination (ROSE). AIM The aim of this study was to evalua...

Aim For patients with inhalation injury, the indications for early intubation are diverse. The purpose of this study was to identify the most reliable symptoms, physical findings, and medical examinations with which to determine the indications for early intubation in patients with inhalation injury. Methods We retrospectively collected patient data from medical records. Collected data includ...